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Electricity in the Air: On the Brink of Wireless Power

A n upcoming generation of wireless charging solutions could eliminate charging woes and wires forever. I spent much of last evening on a plane. My laptop, a Dell M11x , didn’t have an adapter that worked with the American Airlines cigarette lighter plug, so I had to use the laptop battery, which meant my screen was really dim as I tried to preserve my system’s precious juice. This is one of the reasons I’m flying Virgin America now: They not only have Wi-Fi (which American increasingly has as well) they have normal US AC pugs. Hey there’s an idea, let’s put power on planes that I can actually plug into! Those tricky Europeans… At the same time, my phone battery is on life support, I have no idea how much power my headset or MiFi Verizon wireless router has left, and if I get one more battery-run device, they’ll likely put me on a no-fly list. Fortunately, a range of innovative power charging devices already exist to address these problems, and even some amazing wireless charging solu...